So what if the aborted baby cried?

This unborn child, so devalued and derided, is actually very valuable to researchers. Between 1984 and 2002, fetal tissue - described as a "scarce resource" - from babies of up to 20 weeks' gestation was used for research by 19 biomedical researchers at 12 institutions. The big distribution centre for these body parts is the diabetes transplant unit at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney. This clearing house for fetal parts supplies bones, cartilage, eyes, kidneys, brains, spinal cords, pancreases, livers, skin, placentas, adrenal glands and hearts. The spoils of late-term abortion are up for grabs.

Recently, researchers harvested ovarian tissue from 7 aborted female fetuses aged between 22 and 33 weeks. They hope to stimulate the ovaries into producing fully mature eggs. These dead babies could one day be mothers.

If born prematurely, these babies would most likely survive. They are given no pain relief. It's time to cut through the euphemism and double-speak to take a cold hard look at our unregulated abortion industry, which knocks off babies a breath away from birth and preys on the desperation of women for whom pro-choice equals no choice.

Midwife Carrie Williams told an inquest into Baby J's death that when she contacted the doctor who aborted the baby to inform him she was still alive, his response was, "So?" Will this continue to be the collective response to the barbarity of abortion against women and children?